To stave off terror, feds issue safety strategy for boaters
As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist the country's 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb somewhere along the country's 95,000 miles of coastline and inland waterways.
Tugboat Minuet
TUGBOATS are not as romantic as fire trucks, and they do not have the sleek aerodynamic shape of airplanes. But there is something deeply satisfying about watching them at work.
For Humble Bungalows, a Plan to Save the Sunshine
SUSAN ANDERSON lives on Beach 26th Street in Far Rockaway, on one of the area’s remaining bungalow-lined blocks. Ms. Anderson, who is an artist, bought two bungalows on the street in 2004, and she hopes to turn the one that still has its original cedar shingles into her studio. But over the past few years she has watched in dismay the construction of a 15-story oceanfront condominium just a few yards away.
Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World
Cod caught off Norway is shipped to China to be turned into filets, then shipped back to Norway for sale.
Making Ships Green, in Port and at Sea
Something unusual is happening in Swedish waters. Crews docking at the Port of Gothenburg are turning off their engines and plugging into the local power grid rather than burning diesel oil or sulfurous bunker fuel — a thick, black residue left over from refining oil.
ANGLERS, WEST IS THE BEST
RIGHT now the best salt water action is to the west.
When the Waters Yield Macabre Secrets
In any standard lexicon, the term “floater” refers to a few whimsical images of nature: a gull on the breeze, a passing cloud.
France Sees Its Heritage in Its Crumbling Lighthouses
ÎLE D’OUESSANT, France — From this farthest edge of France, where the rain comes horizontally off the ocean, there is nothing on the horizon except waves and lighthouses, marking the line between land and sea, sea and sky.
The Creac’h lighthouse, on the western end of Île d’Ouessant, has severe rot. Like many French lighthouses, it has become more symbolic than functional.
Costly Lesson on How Not to Build a Navy Ship
With the crack of a Champagne bottle against its bow, the newly minted Navy warship, bedecked with bunting, slid sideways into the Menominee River in Wisconsin with a titanic splash.
Lease Ends Uncertainty for Red Hook Cargo Docks
The long-running battle over the future of the cargo docks in Red Hook, Brooklyn, is over.